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Trade Day 2019 Review by Mariel Deegan President of Publishing Ireland It was great to see some of you at Trade Day last week at the Dublin Book Festival in Smock Alley. There was a really strong line up of speakers from both within the Irish book trade and abroad.  As a publisher, I can […]

Friday, 15th November, Smock Alley Theatre 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. (Registration 9:30 a.m.) PURCHASE TICKETS – EVENTBRITE – https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/looking-inwardslooking-outwards-publishing-ireland-trade-day-tickets-79686665963 The 7th annual Publishing Ireland Trade Day will be a day of two halves, with a wide and varied list of speakers from across the industry. In the morning, Philip Stone from Nielsen BookScan will lead the […]

This year’s Books to Screen event took place at the Royal Irish Academy, Dawson St and we were delighted to have sponsorship from Dingle Gin. The event was a great success and provided an excellent opportunity for publishers , screen directors, producers and other media affiliates to network and brainstorm ideas. Click here for the […]

Click here to download materials from the day (members only): The Package handouts (1)

Bookseller/Publisher Get-Together The recent BI Bookshop Event in Galway was a great success with over 30 people gathered in Charlie Byrne’s, including several publishers. Ivan made a speech on behalf of PI, while Pat McCabe gave a great reading. The next event is to be held in Waterstones, Cork on Thursday 25 July. We already have commitments […]

Please note that the Annual General Meeting of Publishing Ireland will take place at 2pm on Wednesday, 17 July in Poetry Ireland, 11 Parnell Square East.  Click below to download the documents for the meeting: AGM Notice 2019 (with proxy form and nomination papers) Cle Theorainn Rathaiochta Full Accounts 2018 (1) The Dublin Book Festival Company […]

Publishing Ireland Strategic Planning Day The board of Publishing Ireland is having a strategic planning day on Wednesday 22 May in Messenger Publications, 37 Lower Leeson St, Dublin 2. We are delighted that Marion Sinclair from Publishing Scotland will be joining us to try to map the future path of the organisation. For the first […]

THE KATE O’BRIEN AWARD The Kate O’Brien Award was established in 2015 by the organising committee of the Limerick Literary Festival in honour of Kate O’Brien  to celebrate Irish Women’s Writing in memory of Kate O’Brien. It is an honorary award presented to the best debut novel/short story collection by an Irish female author. The […]

Following an excellent and comprehensive workshop on the  key standards Thema, ONIX and ISNI with  Editeur, Stison and BDS, you will find some material below from our speakers on the day:   All_Ireland_Nat_extensions Editeur 20190118 Dublin ONIX Thema ISNI small Information About Your Books – intro Thema version 1.3 Worked Examples-2 small